Paleo Chocolate Cake

Paleo Chocolate Cake Recipe

www.primal-palate.com

Icing Ingredients:

• 1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (Made by Enjoy Life)
• 1/2 cup macadamia oil

Icing Process:

1. On very low heat melt chocolate chips and mix with macadamia oil.
2. Cool in freezer about 15 min.
3. Blend with a hand mixer until fluffy.

Cake Ingredients:

• 10 eggs
• 1 cup organic raw honey
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup coconut oil
• 3/4 cup coconut flour, sifted
• 1 tsp baking soda

Cake Process:

1. Preheat oven to 325.
2. In small bowl combine coconut flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking soda.
3. In a large bowl blend with a hand mixer combine eggs, coconut oil, melted honey, and vanilla.
4. Add dry ingredients to wet and continue to blend.
5. Grease two 9″ round baking pans (we used coconut oil cooking spray).
6. Pour batter into (2) 9″ round baking pans. Divide evenly.
7. Bake for 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Cake Assembly:

1. Let cakes cool and remove from baking pans.
2. Spread frosting on top of first layer.
3. Lay second cake on top (frosted area).
4. Frost top of entire cake, working from top down to the sides.
5. Sprinkle cake with shredded unsweetened coconut.
6. Sprinkle sides with left over chocolate chips.

**Be sure to melt coconut oil!

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Row/Thrusters/Box Jumps

Today’s Workout
21-15-9 reps of:
Row (calories)
Thrusters
Box Jumps

Farmers Walk/KBS/MBC

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3 Rounds
50m Farmers Walk (Forward)
50m Farmers Walk (Backward)
30 KB Swings
30 Medicine Ball Cleans

Strength Day

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Deadlifts 1-1-1-1-1

Team Workout & Breakfast

Team Workout & Breakfast

Don’t forget this Saturday Feb. 12th we will be having a team workout at 8am

and then afterward a Paleo/Eat Clean Breakfast!!!

Energy Bar Recipe

Primal/Paleo Energy Bar

The following is the new and improved official Mark’s Daily Apple Primal Energy Bar:

Primal Energy Bar Recipe:

Ingredients:

1/2 cup slivered almonds
1/2 cup pecans
1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut

1/4 cup almond butter (although cashew, hazelnut, walnut and even pumpkin butters will work well too!)
1/4 cup coconut oil (check your local health food store)

1/4 cup almond meal (simply pulse approximately 1/4 cup of almonds until it creates a coarse flour)
1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/2 tsp of raw honey (although, this is really kind of optional because the egg will help hold the mixture together)
1/2 cup unsweetened whey protein powder (or 60g)
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 cup dried cranberries or blueberries
1/4 cup unsweetened coconut to sprinkle on top

Method:

1. On a cookie sheet, toast nuts and shredded coconut until golden brown. In order for them to cook evenly, you need to shake up the tray at least once during cooking…trust us!
2. Once toasted, pour mixture into a food processor and pulse until nuts are chopped and the mixture becomes coarsely ground (sort of the consistency of bread crumbs).
3. In a mixing bowl, melt coconut oil and almond butter (about 30 seconds). Remove from microwave and stir until smooth.
4. Add vanilla extract, honey and sea salt. Mix thoroughly.
5. Fold in nut mixture, almond meal and protein powder until mixed thoroughly.
6. Add whole egg and mix thoroughly.
7. Fold in blueberries/cranberries.
8. Press mixture into an 8 by 8 loaf pan (a modification that we made to keep everything crisper and help the bars to hold together).
9. Cook in a preheated oven at 325 degrees for 10 minutes.
10. Remove from oven, sprinkle a ¼ cup of shredded coconut on top and place under broiler until top begins to brown.
11. Let cool for 10-15 minutes. Cut into 12 pieces/bars.
12. Enjoy or stack on wax paper/parchment and store in an airtight container.

Note: You can also add dark chocolate chips instead of the cranberries/blueberries (available at Whole Foods or health food store). If you add the chips while the mixing bowl is warm (from the coconut oil/almond butter mixture), they will melt into the mixture and you will have yourself a chocolate primal bar. Alternatively, you can just let the mix cool, then add the chips, then refrigerate the pan to get chocolate chip primal bars. The bars stick together pretty well without being cooked.

Happy Birthday Emily!

Today’s Workout

Row 1000m
Push Press 15-12-9-6-3
Push-ups 30-24-18-12-9
Row 1000m

Strength

Today’s Workout

Hang Power Cleans 3-3-3-3-3-3-3

Run/Back Squats

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5 Rounds
Run 400m
15 Back Squats

Happy Birthday Jeremy E.!!

Today’s Workout

“The Dirty Thirty”
30 KB Swings
30 Push-ups
30 Wall Ball
30 Knees to Elbows
30 Lunges (Steps)
30 Double Unders

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